Chapter 19 Basketball Game

"Everyone, take your positions!"

The referee raised the small red flag in his hand, and Tang Shi looked up at the finish line in the distance.

At this moment, she seemed to have suddenly become a different person. She was no longer as playful and careless as usual, and her eyes were as focused and serious as a wolf.

"Ready, set! Go!"

With the sound of a gunshot, Tang Shi suddenly ran out like an arrow from a bow, leaving the others far behind in a second.

"Oh my god!" Ji Yang and Song Ci exclaimed in surprise at the same time, both of them were stunned.

"How can a girl run at such a speed?" Ji Yang couldn't believe it.

Chi Jinjin looked at Tang Shi. She was born to be the brightest star on the track, galloping on her own track.

"Tang Shi, come on, come on!" Chi Jinjin saw her getting closer and closer to the finish line.

In just a few seconds, Tang Shi opened his arms, broke the ribbon at the finish line, and successfully won the sprint race.

"How about it, was I handsome just now?" After receiving the award, Tang Shi ran to Chi Jinjin and said complacently.

Chi Jinjin wiped her sweat with a towel and said with a helpless smile, "You, restrain yourself and stop being so arrogant."

"Arrogant? I'm the one who stinks you." Tang Shi said as he moved his face closer and deliberately rubbed the sweat on his face onto Chi Jinjin.

"Oh~" Chi Jinjin pushed her away in disgust.

On the third day of the sports meet, each class had boys' and girls' basketball games. The boys played in the morning and the girls played in the afternoon. There were four courts in total.

Chi Jinjin was still doing logistics work beside the court when she suddenly heard screams behind her. Chi Jinjin turned around and saw that it was Nan Xuqiu. He walked onto the court with a basketball in his hand.

It turned out that their class was competing against the Song Ci class.

Song Ci also walked onto the court, came to the opposite side of him, and said to Nan Xuqiu, "Old Nan, I won't let you down on the court later, so be careful."

Nan Xuqiu said calmly, "Let's wait and see."

With the referee's whistle, the basketball was thrown into the air, shattering the summer heat and spreading all over the court.

The girls outside the field were cheering excitedly, and the cheers one after another lingered in their ears. Some were cheering for Song Ci, but more were cheering for Nan Xuqiu.

Ten minutes into the game, Song Ci's team had scored three goals, while Nan Xuqiu's team had not scored a single goal.

Chi Jinjin couldn't help but worry about Nan Xuqiu.

"Lao Nan." Song Ci said with a smile while patting the ball, "I can't compare to you in reading, but you're not very good at playing basketball."

"Really?" Nan Xuqiu smiled lightly, not looking anxious at all, speaking in a leisurely tone.

But who knew that the next moment, he made a fake move and instantly snatched the ball from Song Ci's hands.

"Damn it!" Song Ci quickly rushed forward to stop him.

But Nan Xuqiu ran very fast and was extremely agile, so no one could touch him at all.

The flying Nan Xuqiu is the most touching, and it seems like he is traveling through time when he is running.

Nan Xuqiu spun and jumped, and the ball flew out of his hand and passed through the basketball hoop in an instant.

"130, one point!"

The referee blew his whistle and shouted.

Suddenly, everyone on the field, including Chi Jinjin, became excited.

"Lao Nan, you are trying to trick me!" Song Ci complained.

Nan Xuqiu still had a smile on his face. He nodded his head with his index finger and said to him slowly, "I can't compare to you in strength, so I can only use my brain."

"No, why do I feel like you are scolding me again?" Song Ci questioned while running.

Nan Xuqiu smiled but said nothing.

The whistle blew again, and Nan Xuqiu tied the scores of the two classes by himself.

Chi Jinjin didn't expect that in addition to being good at studying and painting, he was also so good at playing basketball. His strength was not inferior to Song Ci who played basketball frequently. Moreover, he had an absolute height advantage, which made him even more powerful.

He was seen moving around the court like a dragon, his agility confusing his opponents, and it seemed as if everyone on the court was in his control.

Soon the game entered a white-hot stage. Song Ci even used his best skills to barely tie the score. Seeing that time was getting shorter and shorter, as long as one of the teams scored, they would win.

Chi Jinjin noticed that Song Ci seemed very anxious. He kept scolding his teammates and discussing tactics with them, but Nan Xuqiu remained calm.

In the last half, even Chi Jinjin, a sports idiot, could see that Song Ci and his team had changed their style of play to suppress Nan Xuqiu, and Nan Xuqiu had not been able to touch the ball at all.

Ji Yang watched the excitement from the side and complained, "Old Song really has no brothers on the field. Is it really okay to target Old Nan like this..."

He smiled helplessly.

"Brother Song!" A boy shouted at Song Ci and threw the ball in his hand towards him.

Song Ci immediately reached out to take the ball, dribbling it towards the basket on Nan Xuqiu's court. He threw the ball into the basket with all his might, but the next moment, Nan Xuqiu blocked it with a palm.

Nan Xuqiu grabbed the ball and was about to go to Song Ci's court, but he was stopped by someone after taking a few steps. Song Ci stepped forward to intercept the basketball, but Nan Xuqiu turned around and threw the ball back.

The ball passed over Song Ci's head, drew a perfect parabola in the air, crossed half of the court, and passed through the basket in an instant.

There was a deafening cheer in the field, and the girls jumped up excitedly, their high ponytails flying in the air.

Chi Jinjin saw Nan Xuqiu step forward and catch the basketball that was about to fly out of the court. He patted the ball with one hand and walked towards Song Ci. The hair on his forehead was wet with sweat, and beads of sweat fell to the ground on his face.

He was sweating profusely, but he didn't feel dirty at all. Instead, he felt refreshed than usual. The beads of sweat that fell to the ground were like pearls of dew.

They were wearing the same white sports headband, but Song Ci had a gangster vibe, while he was clean and gentle, full of youthful vigor, and rebuked mediocrity.

The words in this mundane world are ordinary, but Nan Xuqiu is an extraordinary chapter. The stars are in his eyes and the sunshine is on his body.

"Lao Nan, you hid it really well. I asked you to hit me normally, but you didn't. Today you beat me to death." Song Ci sat down on the ground exhausted and complained.

Nan Xuqiu said with a smile, "It was just luck."

As he spoke, he casually threw the ball in his hand. Unexpectedly, the ball once again crossed half the court and went into the basket.

Nan Xuqiu turned around, looked at the basketball that had fallen to the ground, curled his lips into a smile, and murmured, "It seems the calculation was successful..."

Chi Jinjin looked at him sweating profusely, looked down at the mineral water in her hand, and wondered whether she should get him a bottle of water. He should want to drink some water.

But what if he doesn't want to? That would be embarrassing.

Chi Jinjin took a step forward, but then stopped.

Just as she was hesitating and timid, the class monitor of his class had already run behind Nan Xuqiu.

"Nan," the monitor called him. Nan Xuqiu turned to look at her. She said with a bright smile, "Congratulations, Nan, on your victory. Have a drink of water."

She handed the mineral water in her hand to Nan Xuqiu.

Chi Jinjin saw Nan Xuqiu smiling and reaching out to take the mineral water.

The girls looked at him with admiration.

Chi Jinjin looked at the water in her hands, then looked at Nan Xuqiu opposite her, and felt a wave of loneliness in her heart.

Her steps were always so timid, and her gaze was only fearlessly directed towards him amidst the crowd of guests...

After the sports meet, Chi Jinjin entered the monotonous and tedious study stage again. Piles of papers, stuffy classrooms, endless questions, and the teacher's urging made up every day of her life.

Fortunately, Song Ci doesn't seem to be targeting them anymore, and no one has bothered her recently.

Chi Jinjin walked out of the classroom and came to the aisle. She leaned forward on the guardrail and felt the cool breeze outside to relieve her fatigue.

But unexpectedly, I saw Nan Xuqiu and the class monitor in the crowd.

The two of them were holding thick exercise books, walking side by side in the crowd, talking and laughing, looking like the male and female protagonists in a youth movie.

Chi Jinjin lowered her eyes. She hated the sour feeling in her heart, but she couldn't control it.

"Chi Jinjin, please stop liking Nan Xuqiu..."

She told herself that the side of her that liked Nan Xuqiu was not the side she was most familiar with.

In the past, Chi Jinjin would not be unhappy all the time. In the past, Chi Jinjin was not so sentimental. She was obviously a very optimistic person, wasn’t she?

Chi Jinjin turned around and leaned against the railing, looking down at her toes, thinking, I don’t want to like him anymore, let’s just end it here.

"Chi Jinjin." Wang Xiaomo suddenly came over and asked her, "I lost my bracelet."

"I didn't see it." Chi Jinjin replied.

"Are you sure?" Wang Xiaomo questioned, "Didn't you steal it?"

"Why do you think it's me?" Chi Jinjin asked back.

Wang Xiaomo said disdainfully, "My bracelet is only three or four hundred yuan. To the other people in the dormitory, it's just that, so they can't possibly take it. But you... you're different. A bracelet worth three or four hundred yuan should be considered valuable to you, right?"

"Wang Xiaomo, stop talking nonsense. I would never steal other people's things!" Chi Jinjin said angrily.

"You didn't steal? Then... where did this come from?" Wang Xiaomo took out the orange pen from his pocket.

Chi Jinjin said angrily, "You rummaged through my things?"

"I didn't rummage through it, I just searched it, and I found this stolen property. It's so expensive, don't tell me you bought it yourself, the one who used an old phone for most of the semester." Wang Xiaomo laughed sarcastically.

"This is not stolen property. It was given to me by Senior Nan." Chi Jinjin explained.

Wang Xiaomo questioned, "Senior Nan gave it to you? How is that possible? How could he give you something? I think you stole it from Senior Nan."

"I don't have it! Give it back to me!" Chi Jinjin reached out to grab it.

"Oh, the thief is in a hurry and wants it. Just come and get it yourself." Wang Xiaomo immediately threw the pen to a boy next to him.

Chi Jinjin rushed forward to grab it, but the next moment the boy threw the pen to another person, and then gradually more people joined in, tossing the pens in the air.

Chi Jinjin was running around anxiously among the crowd, trying to get it back.

When they saw Chi Jinjin's anxious look, they became more and more excited and even led Chi Jinjin to the playground.

Chi Jinjin was exhausted from the chase, and someone pushed her hard from behind. She fell to her knees on the ground in an instant, and her hands that were supporting herself on the ground were scraped.

"Give it to me." Chi Jinjin gasped with difficulty, her hair sticking to her face in a messy manner. Her hand, which was bleeding, slowly stretched out to the boy opposite, trembling slightly in the air. She said with red eyes.

"Give it to you? Call me daddy and I'll give it to you." The boy said to Chi Jinjin.

Bursts of sarcastic laughter rang out all around.

"What are you doing?"

Suddenly a voice came from behind everyone.

Everyone turned around and saw that it was Nan Xuqiu!

Seeing this, Wang Xiaomo quickly took the pen from the boy's hand, ran up to him, and said flatteringly, "Senior Nan, we caught a thief. She stole your pen!"

Nan Xuqiu took it without even glancing at Wang Xiaomo, and said indifferently, "Is it considered stealing if I gave it to her?"

"Ah?" Wang Xiaomo was stunned and shocked. She didn't expect that what Chi Jinjin said was actually true.

Nan Xuqiu walked around Wang Xiaomo and came to Chi Jinjin. He knelt on one knee in front of her, looked at her and asked, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Chi Jinjin lowered her head and didn't dare to look at Nan Xuqiu.

Nan Xuqiu suddenly pulled her hand and said, "You are injured."

"It's just a minor injury." Chi Jinjin pulled her hand back.

Nan Xuqiu took out a Band-Aid, handed it to Chi Jinjin, and said, "Put this on."

Chi Jinjin slowly raised her head and looked at Nan Xuqiu, hesitantly taking the Band-Aid he handed to her.

"Get up, do you need me to help you?" Nan Xuqiu asked.

Chi Jinjin shook her head and slowly stood up.

But the next moment, she suddenly felt dizzy, her vision went black, and she fell directly on Nan Xuqiu.

"Chi Jinjin?" Nan Xuqiu saw that she looked painful and her lips were pale, so he quickly picked her up from the ground, carried her out of the crowd, and headed to the infirmary, leaving the group of people confused and at a loss.

Nan Xuqiu placed her on the bed. The doctor came over to check on her and said, "She has heatstroke."

The doctor then began to treat her.

Nan Xuqiu stood beside her bed, looking at the unconscious person on the bed, and said softly, "It's just a pen, do you have to fight so hard for it? What a silly little girl."

He smiled slightly and put the pen back in her hand.

When Chi Jinjin woke up, she saw Tang Shi napping beside her.

It turned out that Tang Shi came back from training, Nan Xuqiu found her and explained the general situation to her.

Tang Shi hurried to the infirmary.

"Then my medical expenses..."

Tang Shi replied, "Senior Nan gave it to me."

Chi Jinjin nodded, thinking that he had to find an opportunity to return the money.

When I looked down, I noticed that I was still holding the orange pen in my hand.

Looking at the pen in her hand and the Band-Aid on her palm, Chi Jinjin felt warm in her heart.

The midsummer wind once again stirred up ripples in the girl's heart.

Chi Jinjin felt better and returned to the classroom. Unexpectedly, as soon as she returned, Wang Xiaomo and a group of boys came over. They all stood in front of Chi Jinjin and bowed their heads to her to admit their mistakes.

This made Chi Jinjin at a loss for a moment...